Music and Public Health A Nordic Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bonde, Lars Ole (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Theorell, Töres (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Health promotion.; Epidemiology.; Music.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music. Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy,...

Table of Contents:

• A Danish Music and Public Health Study: Some conclusions and consequences for preventive projects
• Musicality and creativity: The role of musical abilities as predictors
• HUNT data on music and health revisited
• Music as a forum for social-emotional health
• Health musicking and prophylaxis
• Humanizing a working environment with cultural and musical activities
• new approach to promoting health and quality of life in local contexts
• Choral singing for a better life
• Group music therapy for first-time mothers and their infants at local community health care centres
• Music as integral part of 'Culture by prescription'.